Parry from Default

[kirbwarrior]

Originally Posted by tbone

Unless I'm misunderstanding, I don't think that'd work well. It'd be ruling that Karate and Judo parry a punch normally, but parry an attacking arm at +3 if it happens to be wielding a weapon, no?

Yes, but that bonus would act similar to DB where if you succeed because of it, the attack goes for the arm.

[Plane]

Originally Posted by kirbwarrior

Yes, but that bonus would act similar to DB where if you succeed because of it, the attack goes for the arm.

That you might be wielding a shield too is exactly why it complicates it to have 'success by X' instead of 'fail by X'

[kirbwarrior]

Originally Posted by Plane

That you might be wielding a shield too is exactly why it complicates it to have 'success by X' instead of 'fail by X'

I could see that. I'm not fully advocating for this rule since I haven't put much thought into figuring out how to implement "I defend for the purposes of changing the attacker's target instead of stopping the attack" entirely.